• Telegram for fidonet purposes

    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Wilfred van Velzen on Mon Aug 10 08:59:00 2020
    Hello Wilfred!

    ** On Monday 10.08.20 - 13:51, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:

    [3] Each account is tied to the phone number for the user. That might
    be fine for the user (analogous to a BBS user or a point), but inorder
    to work, the BBS sysop would have to sacrifice their phone's Telegram
    account to identify as the gateway-ID.

    That's not strictly true! You only need a phonenumber for the account verification process. Once you have created the Telegram account you don't need it anymore:

    https://social.techjunkie.com/use-telegram-without-phone-number/

    Thank you for posting that.

    It is cool to be reminded about alternative ways to get a temporary phone number forwarded to one's "real" cellphone. I heard of some of them some
    time ago. I may even employ one of the methods to minimize exposing my
    real cell number for general use.

    But the title of the article is misleading. You ultimately still need a
    real cellphone to forward the temporary one since the verification process
    is via text. A plain landline phone nummber isn't going to work.

    It is good to know that my assumption about sacrificing a cellphone for a dedicated gate with Telegram is wrong.

    (BTW.. the site is a horrible advertising mess with a constant feed of ads refreshing + animations + popups, and wasting my data, and ads placed
    within the body of the text every new page-down. The main article of the text was loaded but data continued to stream up to 6MB within 2 minutes
    while reading the article, and no signs of slowing down before I cut it
    off.)

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    ../|ug

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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to August Abolins on Mon Aug 10 15:20:02 2020
    Hi August,

    On 2020-08-10 08:59:00, you wrote to me:

    [3] Each account is tied to the phone number for the user. That
    might be fine for the user (analogous to a BBS user or a point), but
    inorder to work, the BBS sysop would have to sacrifice their phone's
    Telegram account to identify as the gateway-ID.

    That's not strictly true! You only need a phonenumber for the account
    verification process. Once you have created the Telegram account you
    don't need it anymore:

    https://social.techjunkie.com/use-telegram-without-phone-number/

    Thank you for posting that.

    It is cool to be reminded about alternative ways to get a temporary phone number forwarded to one's "real" cellphone. I heard of some of them some time ago. I may even employ one of the methods to minimize exposing my real cell number for general use.

    But the title of the article is misleading. You ultimately still need
    a real cellphone to forward the temporary one since the verification process is via text. A plain landline phone nummber isn't going to
    work.

    Nope, but you do need a working internet connection, with a browser, on your connection device...

    It is good to know that my assumption about sacrificing a cellphone
    for a dedicated gate with Telegram is wrong.

    (BTW.. the site is a horrible advertising mess with a constant feed of ads
    refreshing + animations + popups, and wasting my data, and ads placed
    within the body of the text every new page-down. The main article of the
    text was loaded but data continued to stream up to 6MB within 2 minutes
    while reading the article, and no signs of slowing down before I cut it
    off.)

    I don't see them because of add-blocker plugins in my browser. ;-)

    Bye, Wilfred.

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  • From Paul Quinn@3:640/1384 to August Abolins on Thu Aug 13 15:30:30 2020
    Hi! August,

    On 13 Aug 20 00:43, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

    BTW, Stas has indicated that he has hooked up to this echo.
    Hopefully he'll jump in soon and expound on his Telegram/fidonet
    gateway.
    We'll see. ;)

    He has indicted to me that he sent one to post on Sunday, but it
    hasn't shown up here.

    We uneathed a glitch in the FidoMatrix, fixed l-a-t-e last night (my time). Standby for plan B...

    Cheers,
    Paul.

    ... My toys! My toys! I can't do this job without my toys!
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